My first conscious Dark Hallway Of Doors came to me through a dream. By my mid-thirties, I accomplished a significant footprint in the local theatre and short fiction community. Then I had The Dream. I see a long hallway of doors without end. Pounding Heart Storm calls for a Greek…

I met the Spoonman in a Port Townsend, WA, Food Bank Line shortly after the Covid pandemic hit. We started a good conversation based on a creative flow story share and note comparison experience. Last week, our discussion unfolded as follows: Spoonman: “I know our community is getting sucked into…

It's a Pacific Northwest morning. I leave my cottage at eight and, carrying a paddle, walk downhill to the lakefront. A canoe, beached and secured by rope to a tree, is a vision of simplicity and transition. …

Under the Religious Crimes Code of 1883, Congress banned Native dances and ceremonies, including the Sun Dance, Ghost Dance, potlatches, and the practices of medicine persons. …

Technology has changed from no phones to smartphones to photo and video sharing, Skype, FaceTime, and Zoom to VR, gaming, AI, and Metaverse, an immersive social experience meant to access a “deeper” presence. I watched Zuckerberg’s video presentation, Connect 2021, about how we all are building the Metaverse together. Yet…

The Inner Metaverse World Gaming Trek I subscribe to provides 24/7 streaming access, individual or team-play, all for free. No ads and no pressure to purchase updates, but the catch, and there always is a catch, is I can’t upgrade unless my physical and energetic readouts allow me to. …

Outer Metaverse VR streaming products are designed to take me into a virtual experience based on my data accumulated from technological choices: (clicks, swipes, tap & type, select, search bar research, purchases, link follows, social media posts, surveys completed, websites joined, map interaction and other.) These products, including AI imaging…

This story begins on Sunday at my local pub. A younger than me fellow referenced a poem, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, by Billy Collins (1998) in a joking fashion, declaring the writer got bored trying to navigate the clothing mystery and gave up. …

My elders warned me in a storytelling fashion that coming of age applies to teenagers, mid-life crises, and emerging seniorhood. My teenage years were filled with the common data of an artist-angster. I exercised suspicion, practiced guardedness, and pushed on my superiority door openers, fulfilling my Rite-of-Passage into Young Adultdom. …